Samuel C. Crafts

Samuel Chandler Crafts (6 October 1768-19 November 1853) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Vermont's at-large district from 4 March 1813 to 3 March 1821 (succeeding Charles Marsh) and from VT 5 from 4 March 1821 to 3 March 1825 (preceding John Mattocks), Governor from 10 October 1828 to 18 October 1831 (succeeding Ezra Butler and preceding William A. Palmer), and a US Senator from 23 April 1842 to 3 March 1843 (succeeding Samuel Prentiss and preceding William Upham).

Biography
Samuel Chandler Crafts was born in Woodstock, Connecticut in 1768, and, in 1793, he was the youngest delegate to the Vermont constitutional convention. Entering politics as a Democratic-Republican, he served as town clerk from 1799 to 1829, as a frequent member of the state legislature, as register of probate from 1796 to 1815, and assistant judge of the Orleans County Court from 1800 to 1810 and from 1825 to 1828. He went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1813 to 1825, as Governor from 1828 to 1831, and as a US Senator from 1842 to 1843. He died in 1853.